Matched on player tags · Not ranked by quality
Games like: 2009 starting points
Pick the game you already know and see what overlaps with it. Matching runs on the tags Steam players applied, on genre, on theme and on the studio behind it, so every recommendation shows exactly what it matched on and you can discard the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
Most looked-for
Every game with a similar list
Also catalogued
1,985 more games with a similar list, not yet reviewedNone of these carry a review yet. The rest are catalogue records: title, year, studio and platforms, sourced from Wikidata. They are not indexed by search engines, because a record is not a review.
- Half-Lifesource
- Half-Life 2source
- Undertalesource
- The Sims 3source
- BioShocksource
- Mafiasource
- Far Cry 3source
- Call of Duty: World at Warsource
- The Sims 4source
- Resident Evil 4source
- Max Paynesource
- Sporesource
- Age of Empiressource
- Need for Speed: Most Wantedsource
- World of Tankssource
- Mafia IIsource
- Far Crysource
- RuneScapesource
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flagsource
- Assassin's Creed IIsource
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivionsource
- Far Cry 5source
- Far Cry 4source
- Quakesource
- Call of Duty: Black Ops IIsource
Common questions
How do you decide what counts as a similar game?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Player tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing.
Are these recommendations ranked by quality?
No. Each list is ordered by how much a game overlaps with the one you started from. Where two overlap equally the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Every entry shows its own player sentiment separately so you can weigh that yourself.
Why is a game I would expect missing?
Two reasons. A game only appears if it has a Steam listing with at least fifty player reviews, because without that there is nothing to say about how it was received. And a game only gets its own page here if at least eight others overlap with it meaningfully. 2009 qualify at the moment.